After US now UK will make tougher to get work visas

Within weeks of the US restraining companies receiving bailout money from employing immigrant workers, Britain is set to enforce new restrictions on professionals from India and other non-EU countries so that existing jobs are first offered to local workers. From April, those wishing to enter Britain under the Tier 1 category of the immigration system will require a masters degree and £20,000 in place of the current requisites of an undergraduate degree and £17,000. Over 25,000 people, including many Indians, entered Britain under Tier 1 last year.
We have always said it is important to be selective about who comes here to work. Now in response to the global recession that has hit British workers, we are setting out how we will now be even more selective, home secretary Jacqui Smith was quoted as saying in The Sunday Telegraph